Bookworm on Nov 09 2009 | Filed under: Silly Stuff
If through some magical alchemy I could get some of my favorite authors to write into being the man in my next life (I’m planning on being reincarnated), the authors, in chronological order, would be: Jane Austen, Dorothy Sayers, Georgette Heyer, Neville Shute and Linda Howard. Do any of you have writers who create characters [...]
Bookworm on Jul 22 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
‘Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.’ — Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland.
In times past, teachers, parents and moralists frowned upon fiction because it was not considered elevating writing. It neither taught concrete skills nor high moral lessons. By the 17th Century, writers started to find a way around that problem — [...]
Bookworm on Jun 10 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
I couldn’t resist a minute to blog about this one: An exquisite miniature of Tom Lefroy has emerged in England. He is the man nobody knows under his real name, but everyone knows under his immortal literary alter ego: Fitzwilliam Darcy. Thus, while it’s not 100% certain that he served as Jane Austen’s model for [...]
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